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Saturday, September 6, 2014

I will say that I have been so excited to be able to participate in yet another design challenge & blog hop. As many other past challenges I set out many times to design and come up with something different and original. Many times I "cruised" pinterest for inspiration. This evening, Saturday, September 6th I'm burning both ends of the candle. I set out to make a ring. I tend to peyote my bezels quite tight. So at 9:00pm PST I unfortunately got a full blown anxiety attack & hot flash. Uhh, like I needed this NOW?! So then I'm calling Heather Richter one of my life lines for support. She was the best. I ended up scrapping working on beading a bezel and she suggested I do the wire wrapping of the charms with half round copper wire around some gear frames to make a simple pair of earrings. We've all been there. For me I was set out to make a simple ring from a you tube video that I came across today & ended up with a pair of earrings. LOL!

Here you can see that on the right one, I cut the loop off to do the peyote bezel.

Here are my earrings, you can see that I ended up cutting off the other loop.

Please take the time to visit all the participants in this blog hop challenge. Get inspired to create something different or use a new element in your next design.

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

PRO~ If you choose to enable Google+ you can have all of your google friends' comments linked to your google email account.

CON~If you choose to enable Google+ ONLY those who have a Google email account may post on your blogs. They must either log in or sign up for a google email account.

CON~If you have enabled Google+ & choose to disable it remember this.....Copy & Paste every comment into word for each & every blog that you wish to repost the comments. This is what I learned today. I was able to copy & past only Google+ comments that were saved in my google email account from the drop down bell icon.

I was able to copy & paste Google+ comments for my recent posts of Carnival, Chicklets & Haberdashery, Gemstones & Metal, and Ocean Blog Hops only. This was a decision I made to allow those who use other email accounts that are NOT google. Unfortunately, I ended up losing all of my comments for EVERY post that I've created in blogger. Including BSBP!!

Hopefully another Blogger user out there will be able to copy & paste all of their comments for all of their blog posts.

I learned many new things today with using blogger. Google+ is like being in a private club. I will continue to use my google email, just not every NEW aspect of their company.

There are so many objects, characters, food, rides, colors and more when it comes to going to a carnival, fair and circus. I spent hours upon hours searching for clip arts and photographs in google searches and on pinterest. I was looking for different things to get inspired in this Carnival Blog Hop.From cotton candy, funnel cakes, tilt-a-whirls, ferris wheels, clowns, lions, ring leaders, flying trapeze artists, cake walks, ticket stubs, hay, seals balancing balls on their heads, candy, soda, popcorn.....I came across this photo on google.

I then was thinking of the shapes of my sea glass and rondelle crystals. All of a sudden I'm looking at the hot dog and the RED donut sea glass beads.H~O~T~D~O~G!

Sorry it's not the best picture. I added 4 red donut beads onto an eyepin & wire wrapped the other end. I found some japanese seed beads in my stash for the color of the hot dog bun. Scoured some more & found some beads for mustard & relish.

Surprisingly I had this hot dog finished about a week after receiving the kit.

I was carnival blocked up until 2 weeks before the reveal. I had to do something more considering I had only used 4 beads from the kit so far....

Closeup of Bottle Caps

CARNIVAL TIME

Just above to the left is a closeup view of the Bottle Caps. Which I used carnival themed bottle cap stickers, glossy accents and punched holes with my Crop~a~dile. Above to the right the completed "CARNIVAL TIME" themed chain necklace with animal charms, red sea glass dangles, bicycle pendant, a pair of hot air balloon earrings and the HOT DOG keychain charm.

Please take you time to visit and ooh & ahh over the rest of the talented artists in this FUN Carnival Challenge.

I stitched the peyote chicklet onto an orange button, added a peyote bail. I wasn't sure at first what to do with the CHICKLET pendant, then thought to combine my CHICKLET & HABERDASHERY blog projects. I took some leftover hot pink and metallic bon bon yarn along with some orange & turquoise DMC thread to make the necklace. I cut different lengths of each & knotted them together to make 2 strands of my own fibers. For one of the strands I hand crocheted that length. For the 2nd strand I attached it to my first strand. Then started tying knots with different colors.

Choosy Chicks Choose Chicklets Challenge (c5)

Participating Artists

CHICKLET LIST OF PARTICIPANTSGuest of Honor & Featured Artist:Susan Kennedy